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Jean-François Lyotard: The postmodern as a historical/cultural "condition" based on a dissolution of master narratives or metanarratives (totalizing narrative paradigms like progress and national histories), a crisis in ideology when ideology no longer seems transparent but contingent and constructed
Frederic Jameson: Postmodernism as a movement in arts and culture corresponding to a new configuration of politics and economics, "late capitalism": transnational consumer economies based on global scope of capitalism
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Overview of Post Modern Film
Pastiche - Self-referential, tongue in cheek, rehashes of classic pop culture
Flattening of Affect - Technology, violence, drugs ad the media lead to detached, emotionless, unauthentic lives
Hyperreality - Technologically created realities are often more authentic or desirable than the real world
Time Bending - Time Travel provides another way to shape reality and play 'what if' games with society
Altered States - Drugs, mental illness and technology provide a dark, often psychedelic, gateway to new internal realities
More Human than Human - Artificial intelligence, robotics and cybernetics seek to enhance or replace humanity
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Postmodernist film typically has three key characteristics that separate it from modernist cinema or traditional narrative film. 1) The pastiche of many genres and styles. Essentially, this means that postmodern films are comfortable with mixing together many disparate kinds of film(styles, etc.) and ways of film-making together into the same movie. 2) A self-reflexivity of technique that highlights the construction and relation of the image to other images in media and not to any kind of external reality. This is done by highlighting the constructed nature of the image in ways that directly reference its production and also by explicit intertextuality that incorporates or references other media and texts. The deconstruction and fragmentation of linear time as well is also commonly employed to highlight the constructed nature of what appears on screen. 3)An undoing and collapse of the distinction between high and low art styles and techniques and texts. This is also an extension of the tendency towards pastiche and mixing. It typically extends to a mixing of techniques that traditionally come with value judgments as to their worth and place in culture and the creative and artistic spheres.
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